Former Trump advisor Bannon: Erdoğan is the most dangerous guy in the world

US President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told CNBC on Wednesday that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan “is the most dangerous guy in the world.”

Bannon appeared on TV to discuss the meeting between Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, which sparked bipartisan outrage against Trump.

Bannon said Trump “gravitates toward personalities that are strong personalities,” according to the Roll Call news website.

“He likes President Xi, he likes Erdoğan — who I think is the most dangerous guy in the world,” he added, in reference to the Chinese and Turkish presidents.

"It's barbarism. I see it coming masqueraded under lawless alliances and predetermined enslavements. It may not be about Hitler's furnaces, but about the methodical and quasi-scientific subjugation of Man. His absolute humiliation. His disgrace"

Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, in a press conference on the occasion of receiving the Nobel Prize (1979)